UK Sales Chart – Week ending June 7th
There are four new entries to the chart this week. Lego Indiana Jones has been released on every format known to man (well, seven formats) and looks set to emulate the success of the Lego Star Wars titles as it has entered the chart at number 1. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Wii version of the game has sold the best, with the 360 version not far behind.
1. Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (Traveller’s Tales)
2. Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)
3. Race Driver: GRID (CodeMasters)
4. Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
5. Wii Play (Nintendo)
6. Ninja Gaiden II (Team Ninja)
7. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
8. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Konami Digital)
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward)
10. FIFA 08 (EA Canada)
11. Dragonball Z: Burst Limit (Dimps)
12. Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo)
13. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Neversoft)
14. Sports Island (Hudson)
15. Haze (Free Radical Design)
16. Sega Superstars Tennis (Sumo Digital)
17. Carnival: Funfair Games (Cat Daddy)
18. Quake Wars: Enemy Territory (Nerve Software)
19. UEFA Euro 2008 Austria-Switzerland (EA Canada)
20. Rock Band (Harmonix)
The second new entry is Ninja Gaiden II; this must come as a relief to Tecmo, as they must have expected sales of the title to suffer after Itagaki’s high profile resignation.
Anime fans seem to be relishing the chance to go all Super Saiyan, but Dragonball Z didn’t quite manage to break into the top 10.
Hudson’s Sports Island (known as Deca Sports outside Europe) has successfully appealed to casual gamers who loved Wii Sports and are looking for more, despite being almost universally slated as a mediocre title.
Rock Band sales have dropped since last week, but the highly-priced musical ‘sim’ managed to cling onto a place in the Top 20.
Sales of Call of Duty 4 don’t seem to be slowing even after the game hit the 10 million mark recently. Is 11 million far off?
Plummeting is the word to describe sales of Haze. It seems that someone has been reading the reviews like this.
10 comments ↓
Rob
June 9th, 2008
Its pretty amazing that Wii Fit and Rock Band are still in the top 20. Especially Wii Fit at number 5. I would imagine that due to the price of it sales will have been significantly reduced. If this was at a normal price, imagine how many Nintendo could have dished out!
Seth
June 9th, 2008
Sorry, but it’s Wii Play (i.e. the buy-an-extra-Wiimote-and-get-a-game-free-game).
Wii Fit isnt even in the Top 40 right now due to major stock shortages.
Ben
June 9th, 2008
Surprised Pro Evo is still selling, it hasn’t been great for some time. But I suppose that could be largely down to the Wii version that I’ve not played. Fifa 08 outselling Euro 2008 is also rather surprising, I’d expect the latter to rise up the charts during the tournament.
Seth
June 10th, 2008
It’s pretty much just the Wii version of Pro Evo thats making up the sales there. I guess people just like something a little different when it comes to controlling their footy players.
Monkey Rimmer
June 10th, 2008
I’m not surprised Lego Indiana Jones is up there at the top. I’m loving it so far! Just a shame there’s no online co-op! How come??
Rob
June 10th, 2008
Ah yeah, slight cock up with the old reading there.
Well… Rock Bands still in the top 20, i suppose that kind of sticks to the original point. Dammit Wii Play!
Manuel
June 10th, 2008
I think is remarcable that wii play still in the top 5 wooow, and yes it has to be the wii version of Pro evo, its way better than the other to versions available, and it handles marvelously, it is a new way to play a soccer game, a really good one indeed.
Will
June 10th, 2008
I don’t think its surprising that Wii Play is still in the top 5 at all. As long as people are buying consoles they will need an extra controller and one that comes with a game for £5 will always be peoples top choice.
The Wii version of Pro Evo is interesting, were it released at the same time as the other ones I doubt it would sell anywhere near the numbers of the PS3 and 360 versions.
Floodland
June 10th, 2008
I’m quite surprised that Lego Indiana Jones is outselling both GTA IV and GRID. I knew Indy was a popular franchise, but this popular? Good stuff. Extremely surprised to see Brain Training still going strong, too. Would’ve thought everyone in the UK had at least two copies by now. Still, besides those, for the most part, the chart isn’t really delivering anything in terms of surprises.
Seth
June 11th, 2008
I the fact that Lego Indy has a much wider potential userbase has helped it knock GTA off the top spot. I mean it’s available for pretty much every platform known to man and it’s not restricted to 18+. It’d probably be a surprise if it WASN’T number 1..